After a week of being attacked for shady bookkeeping and questionable expenditures, the Clinton Foundation is fighting back. In a tweet posted last week, the Clinton Foundation claimed that 88 percent of its expenditures went “directly to [the foundation’s] life-saving work.”

In order for the 88 percent claim to be even remotely close to the truth, the words “directly” and “life-saving” have to mean something other than “directly” and “life-saving.” For example, the Clinton Foundation spent nearly $8.5 million–10 percent of all 2013 expenditures–on travel. Do plane tickets and hotel accommodations directly save lives? Nearly $4.8 million–5.6 percent of all expenditures–was spent on office supplies. Do ink cartridges and and staplers directly save lives?

Those two categories alone comprise over 15 percent of all Clinton Foundation expenses in 2013, and we haven’t even examined other spending categories like employee fringe benefits ($3.7 million), IT costs ($2.1 million), rent ($4 million) or conferences and conventions ($9.2 million). Yet, the tax-exempt organization claimed in its tweet that no more than 12 percent of its expenditures went to non-life-saving overhead expenses.

How can both claims be true? Easy: they’re not. The claim from the Clinton Foundation that 88 percent of all expenditures go to life-saving work is demonstrably false. Conferences do not directly save lives.

People just don’t understand. If a Clinton visits Haiti, their very presence helps make everything better. The spending on travel does directly save lives, because it puts the Clintons where they are needed the most. Who wouldn’t say that Jesus’ travels weren’t beneficial to the people? They would also have to say the Clintons are just as beneficial.

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posted on 04/27/2015 7:08:20 AM PDT
by webheart
(We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)

PROVE IT without those deleted e-mails!! Don’t mean diddly squat!! What difference does it make at this point that abuses took place, they are correcting them. Anyway, shouldn’t we move on to speaking about seedy hedge fund managers like Mrs. Clinton’s son in law (ignore that) or the obscene amount of money that those CEO’s make. It’s time to move on so that Mrs. Clinton can get back to doing the work of the American People!!

They are only the latest and most blatant edition of Arkansas con artists. Go back and read the history of the Smithsonian Institution. It almost didn’t get built because some Arkansas crooks stole the first funds from Smithton’s bequest that had been invested in Arkansas state bonds. John Quincy Adams convinced Congress to repay the money with interest so the Smithsonian could be built. That’s another tradition: the taxpayers of the USA are always left holding the bag.

It would be nice to see what charities they contributed to. How many are conservative and how many are liberal. I’m just trying to think of a liberal charity that feeds the hungry, clothes those that need it and house the homeless.

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posted on 04/27/2015 7:25:30 AM PDT
by SkyDancer
( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)

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